Anish is a motivated business-focused professional with a diverse experience of around 24 years in legal, regulatory, and accountancy. He heads Regulatory Affairs for the Global enterprise business of BT and holds responsibility for approx.187 countries within AMEA, Americas, Europe & India where BT operates. He owns informing BT Global's regulatory strategy across the globe.

Additionally, Anish is also the India General Counsel and holds responsibility for Commercial Legal, Litigation & Employment Legal, India telco regulatory, Corporate Governance, Ethics & Compliance, and the Customs & International Trade functions for all BT lines of businesses operating in India. India also forms part of the leadership team for BT GBS being the shared services business of BT across India, Malaysia, Poland, and the UK.

He has a background in deal lawyering, regulatory affairs, and governance. He has a proven track record in delivering in a fast-paced sales-driven environment and enabling businesses in a technologically evolving eco-system that is also highly regulated. He deploys his experience based on his commercial acumen and strategic thinking with a firm grip on key business risks including commercial, regulatory, and ethics & compliance.

Anshul Prakash is a Partner with the Employment Labour and Benefits practice group in the Mumbai office. Anshul exclusively advises several prominent domestic and international clients on full suite of contentious and non-contentious employment and labour law related matters concerning employee documentation and policies, ethics and compliance, workplace strategies, workforce management including outsourcing and secondment, social security, equity and non-equity based benefits and incentives, industrial relations including trade union strategies, transition due to business transfers, workplace harassment & discrimination, structuring benefits & incentives, health & safety, internal inquiries, white collar investigations, employee communication, staff and management trainings and representation before labour and other statutory authorities.

Anshul also leads the Firm’s thought leadership initiative on advocacy and knowledge sharing in employment and labour law space, and actively shares insights on evolving jurisprudence in the employment and labour law space in several industry publications, print media and public speaking events organized by industry bodies, including CII, HRFI, ASSOCHAM, IFCCI, IGCCI, ICSI amongst others and practice forums such as IBA, IEL to name a few.

Anshul and the ELB practice under his leadership have won several awards and recognitions over the years being ranked Tier-1 across league tables (including the Labour & Employment Law Firm of the Year award at Legal Era Indian Legal Awards 2022). Individually, Anshul has been recognized as Litigation star in Labour and employment for the 2024 edition of Benchmark Litigation Asia Pacific he is also amongst the Top 10 Influential Employment Lawyers by Business Today (2023),  Ranked by Human Resource Association of India amongst Top 50 under 50 HR Leaders 2023, Labour & Employment Lawyer of the Year 2022-23 by Legal Era, Leading Individual Lawyer (Labour & Employment) by Legal Era for 2021, 2022 and 2023 as well as Top Individual Lawyer (Labour & Employment) by Forbes India Legal Power list 2020-21 and 2023-24. He has also been recognized amongst ALB India’s Super 50 Lawyers in 2022 and 2021 besides being recognized by BW Legal World among Top 40 Under 40 “Finest Lawyers” & “Legal Eagles” of the Indian Legal Ecosystem, and honorably ranked and highly recommended by Chambers & Partners Asia Pacific 2024, Legal 500 Asia Pacific (Leading Individual Practitioner) and Asia Law Profiles (Client Service Excellence in Labour & Employment).

Kruthi N Murthy is a senior associate at Khaitan & Co in the Employment Labour and Benefits (ELB) practice group. She has advised several prominent domestic and international clients on various employment law and related matters, including senior executive employment documentation, workforce management, social security compliance, employee transition due to business transfers, workplace harassment and discrimination, internal inquiries, workforce restructuring and internal investigations. Kruthi has also advised clients regarding C-suite employee exits and enforcement of restrictive covenants. She has also been advising clients in relation to the labour codes 2019-20, and the expected changes to India's labour law regime.

Vivek Sriram is a Partner in the Corporate and M&A practice group in the Chennai office. His practice focuses on advising international and domestic clients on structuring of transactions, investment strategies, domestic and cross-border M&A, strategic alliances, joint ventures, private equity, venture capital investments, strategic buy outs and exits and general corporate matters.  

Seasoned legal counsel with experience in a wide variety of industries. Particular interest and focus on healthcare/pharmaceutical and technology. Proven people leader and business counselor.

Experienced in M&As and restructuring of companies, FDI, Indian Direct Investment Outside India, Contracts, Litigation Management, Risk Management, Corporate Laws, Board and related procedures, Real Estate Laws, Compliances under Companies Act, RBI etc., Ethics and Compliances (including FCPA and UKBA), Data Privacy, Employment & Industrial Labor Laws, Direct and Indirect Taxation Laws

Prasenjit Chakravarti is a Partner in the M&A, Corporate and Commercial practice group. With nearly two decades of experience, Prasenjit specialises in mergers and acquisitions, including share transactions, asset transactions, business transfers, and joint ventures. He has extensive M&A experience across a range of sectors including automobile, renewable energy, chemicals, telecoms, and technology.Prasenjit has worked on significant domestic and cross border transactions for both sellers and buyers including strategic buyers and financial sponsors advising on a range of legal, commercial, regulatory and governance issues. He regularly advises offshore clients and is a member of the Firm’s US and German Desk. He was recognised by India Super 50 Lawyer by Asian Legal Business 2023, Leading Lawyer Champion (Corporate and M&A) by Legal Era in 2023 and M&A law expert of the year by Leaders in Law Legal Era 2023, Recommended Key Lawyer (M&A) Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2023 and as one of Leading Lawyer (Best Corporate & M&A Lawyers) for 2022.

Ritu Shaktawat is a Partner in the Direct Tax Practice Group in the Mumbai office. With over a decade in the profession, Ritu has advised clients in the areas of corporate taxation and international taxation including bilateral tax treaties and transfer pricing.   She focusses on matters involving transaction tax advisory, structuring and documentation of domestic, cross-border and global M&A deals having an India leg; complex interpretational issues pertaining to income characterisation and permanent establishment (Indian taxable presence of foreign entities) aspects; taxation of EPC contracts; domestic business restructurings; taxability of the ever-evolving e-commerce business models; and funds taxation and documentation.Ritu has been advising clients on recent additions to Indian tax law such as General Anti Avoidance Rules and Place of Effective Management which are new age issues and are becoming critical across jurisdictions. Over the years, Ritu has developed a deep understanding of transactional tax issues, which she supplements with cutting edge practical inputs. She was part of the team advising NTT Docomo INC in relation to its dispute with Tata. She advised Docomo on the taxability of the amount receivable under the arbitration award, assisted them in their negotiations with Tata and obtaining a favourable withholding tax certificate from the tax authorities.

Sameer is a Partner with the corporate / commercial team at Khaitan & Co. He has over a decade and half of experience in M&A, private equity, and foreign investment related work. Leading publications such as Economic Times, Business Standard, Mint, Times of India, Business Line, Express Pharma, Express Healthcare, DNA, Financial Chronicle, etc., have quoted him and carried his writings.